Help. Uni of Leeds Halls..DD been assigned to a "Shared House"

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DD is off to Leeds. Applied for accommodation v early (non-catered) and did not get any of her preferences...but has been put in Springfield Mount.

Does anyone have any insight/experience of these please? Do they offer the same experience as being in halls (socially for example).

Anything she should be aware of? Preferably positive, but anything would help?

I went to Leeds uni and know where that is-the location is really good and they will be so close to the Union bar. She will be fine.
Great uni choice btw

She’ll be fine. My daughter was in Lyddon and absolutely loved being on campus in year one. The modern halls look flash but are often cramped with many locked doors. These older buildings are more spacious and friendly. With the shared bathrooms came cleaners, a definite advantage. It’s great to be so central to start off.

Hmm, I think it was more based on the proximity to the lake rather than the halls themselves. Basically how easy it was to stumble back drunk.

High Hall (showing your age!) didn't even have a bar when I was there. I knew more people from Wyd.

Though I did end up in University house once or twice.

Hi my daughter has Springfield mount too its her 1st year she's looking for people who may be in that area her move in day is on the 18th September. She's studying Spanish be nice if they could meet up I know my daughter has been added to a whats app group of all new 1st years from a tiktok she saw she's yet to find some1 who's doing her course though. I'm hoping there's stuff near for them like shops places to hang out looks a nice area when I looked on Google maps lol but still worried wot us mum's do

OK now I am panicking as DD has not yet had her halls allocated. She’s going to Leeds too and applied early for accomodation. Have all other Leeds students been allocated?

@Alevelquestions This time last year my second DS who was off to Liverpool had heard absolutely nothing. We knew from UCAS that he had a place, but he had no start date, accommodation, anything. He was laid-back about it, but I was prodding because I knew from DS1 that these things must have been arranged.

Turned out that, because he'd filled in the UCAS forms etc at college, he'd used his college system email not his home one. Worked out how to log on from home and found a gazillion emails with all the info he needed. Could your DD's info be somewhere she's not currently looking?

Hi, we have a similar story. Was assigned 24 Springfield Mount for son. We opted for en-suite accommodations at city side ended with shared houses with shared bathroom. Struggling to find any info about shared houses other than they are close to Uni, we are dropping him off coming Saturday and keeping fingers crossed. If you come across any WhatsApp or Snapchat group for shared houses do share.

@LeedsUniPlanning and @Garry2729 and @Splodge1977 did your children end up at Springfield? I lived in similar student houses myself (decades ago) and am very tempted to recommend that DD names a few when she submits her accommodation request. TIA

Just had a catch up with DD. She has been very happy in her house and will be living with 5 of her housemates next year.

Benefits: More space, (her room is massive as is in the eaves).
They have a washing machine in the kitchen.
Gardens.
Character.
Socially road gatherings/snowball fights
She loves her housemates (apart from one looney one).
For me, there are often a couple of older students in these houses, so there was a "House Mum" in the early days
Friends for her hobby who live in halls do not have the same relationship with their corridor mates in halls.

Cons: at first she was gutted as not what she was expecting
There are no communal spaces like a Common Room, so potentially missed on some social elements.

I think it can be, just like halls, just so dependant on who you end up with.

She is really happy and is glad she was there...but mostly because of the people (and the washing machine...hobby means a lot of washing 😀).

That’s great to hear. Thank you for replying.

DD has chosen shared housing with minimal prompting; whether she gets it is another matter.

She’s a swimmer and lifeguard, so being near(ish) the pool would certainly be handy.

Is house at Springfield Mount same sex or mixed? I got placed at 26 Springfield Mount, anyone knows if its mixed or same gender?

I remember the Birmingham halls. I spent my first year in Ridge and discovered fairly quickly how to get my boyfriend in without going past the all night porter who sat in the foyer. It was an all female hall and men were not allowed on the premises after 10pm!

I imagine that all the shared houses are mixed. DD is in number 10/10A Springfield Mount. I don't think she asked for single sex or anything (but I seem to remember seeing that Leeds is majority female).

I used to live in big old Shared houses in Bristol Uni in the 80's; they often ended up "mixed" overnight. I guess you come to some sort of arrangement re the bathrooms amongst housemates.